The Use of Journal Writing to Improve High School Students` Writing

the research aimed to find out whether journal writings developed students' writing skill. the method employed in this research was a pre-experimental design, where a pretest, a treatment and a postte...

An Analysis of ESL Negation by Indonesian Learners of English

it is widely assumed that constructing negation in an l2 is often quite affected by the syntactic features of the speakers' mother tongue. this study, therefore, set out to assess the english negation...

The Acquisition of English Definite Article “the” by Mandarin and Indonesian Speakers

by replicating feng (2019) with some modifications, this study aimed to identify the acquisition pattern of two kinds of english definiteness, anaphoric and non-anaphoric. being a language without art...

How Language Learner Identity Can Be a Helpful Construct in Language Learning and Teaching

the interest in learner identity within the field of second and foreign language acquisition has been garnering increased attention. this increase can be understood due to the shift from the dominance...

Explicit Technique for Teaching Writing to Students with Sociological Learning Style

the objective of this research was to find out the influence of explicit technique in teaching writing to the students whose learning preference is sociological learning style. this research was a pre...

Promoting Assessment for Learning: Students' Perceptions of Informal Assessment in the English Classroom

this study aims at investigating students' perceptions of informal assessment conducted by the teacher. this assessment provides a solution regarding the fact that many indonesian students feel frustr...

Contextualizing Civilized Character in ELT: Philosophical Approach

every knowledge in this life must be under the philosophy scope including education. moreover, education is not only a matter of transferring knowledge from a teacher to the students but also a matter...

Critical Pedagogy and Race in TESOL

having been initiated by the work of paolo freire in brazil and other south american countries, critical pedagogy has continued to influence the english language teaching profession since the 1980s. f...

Students' Perceptions of Mobile Apps: a Needs Analysis of EFL Learners

in the current digital age, mobile apps are increasingly being employed to expedite the learning process. however, in order to incorporate mobile apps effectively into classrooms, efl teachers must fi...

Factors Causing Students' Disruptive Behavior in Learning English: a Case Study

one of the most serious problems in effective teaching and learning processes at the secondary level is students' disruptive behavior. all stakeholders should have been giving more attention to studen...

The Application of Cluster Mapping Technique in Writing Descriptive Paragraphs

the objective of this study was to examine the effect of using cluster mapping technique to the writing ability of the second-year students of state junior high school (smpn) 4 makassar. a quasi-exper...

Language Learning Strategies of Successful EFL Learners

this study aimed at exploring language learning strategies applied by successful efl learners, specifically in learning language elements: vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. this study employed q...

Bridging the Gaps Among Mixed Ability Students to Create Conducive Atmosphere in Learning English Through Various Communication Activities

the research aimed to get a descriptive account of collaborative communication activities which can bridge the gaps in the view of the students and classroom condition which creates conducive atmosphe...

Investigating Factors Causing Students' Anxiety in Speaking English

the study aimed at investigating the factors causing language anxiety of efl learners in speaking english and how to overcome such problem. the researcher employed descriptive qualitative research by ...

Error Analysis in ESL Writing: a Case Study at Academic English Program at St. Michael's College, VT

analyzing and evaluating linguistic errors in students' english writings have been an interesting attempt in the field of second or foreign language teaching and learning. error analysis and evaluatio...